A Small World
Prints by the "Little Masters" of the Sixteenth Century
Prints by the "Little Masters" of the Sixteenth Century
- Aldegrever, Rhea Silvia
- Aldegrever, Dancing Couple
- Aldegrever , Ornament with Female Centaur
- Altdorfer , Neptune
- Altdorfer, Christ Shown
- Anonymous, Ornament with an Owl and Two Putti
- Beham, Madonna and Child
- Beham, Saint Christopher
- Beham, The Penance
- Beham, Christ and the Woman
- Beham, St. Matthew
- Beham, Cimon and Pero
- Beham, Cimon and Pero
- Beham, Hercules Battling Centaurs
- Beham, Hercules Slaying Nessus
- Beham, Hercules Killing Cacus
- Beham, Hercules Slaying Antaeus
- Beham, Infortunium (Misfortune)
- Beham, Triumphal Procession of the Noble
- Beham, The Peasants' Brawl
- Beham, Peasant Couple
- Beham, Market Peasant
- Beham, Standard Bearer
- Beham, Eight Nude Boys
- Beham, The Little Buffoon
- Beham, Ornament
- Beham, Triumphal Procession of Children
- Beham, Female Genius
- Binck , Genius on a Sea Monster
- Binck , The Fifer
- Binck/Brun, Foot Soldier
- Brosamer, The Kiss
- Brun, Urania
- Brun, October
- Brun, November
- Delaune, Combat d'Enfants
- Master I. B. , Battle of the Gladiators
- Pencz, Conversion of Saul
- Pencz, Woman with a Harp
- Pencz, Grammatica
- Pencz, Dialectica
- Pencz, Rhetorica
- after Pencz, Story of Abraham
- Sonnius, Ornament with a Motto
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4. Albrecht Altdorfer (ca. 1480-1538) Neptune on a Sea Serpent |
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Neptune on a Sea Serpent
Engraving, ca. 1520-25, 26 x 45 mm., Bartsch 30, Hollstein 36, Winzinger 162. Fine impression on laid paper, trimmed on the platemark. The print is rare. Winzinger lists nine impressions in museums and estimates another six in private collections. The design may possibly be after an Italian drawing or a niello. Altdorfer was of an earlier generation than the other Little Masters, worked in Regensburg, was perhaps the least influenced by Dürer, and pioneered the making of miniature prints in Germany. He was often influenced, as here, by Italian nielli (small, decorative silver pieces whose incised lines were filled with sulphur to turn them black). His work had a telling impact on the later Nuremberg Little Masters.
